Accredited Third States
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OAS showcasing Caribbean art
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Organization of American States (OAS) has launched an exhibition of previously unseen works by Caribbean artists, titled “Groundation – Sources of Caribbean Artistry”. Hosted by the OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin and curated by Jamaican author, sociologist and cultural heritage specialist, Margaret Bernal, the exhibition includes a range of oils, water colours, mixed media and…
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Jamaica to benefit from Canadian investments
KINGSTON, Jamaica – JAMAICA and other Caribbean countries are to benefit from three new investments from Canada aimed at increasing private sector-led development and alleviating poverty in developing countries The announcement was made by Canada's Minister of International Cooperation Julian Fantino Tuesday during an address to the 19th annual Conférence de Montréal in Quebec. He said Canada is providing further…
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UK will get no favours to stay in single market, MPs warn
Britain will not get “special treatment” from EU members to stay in the single market, MPs will warn as they urge Conservatives to be realistic about attempts to repatriate powers from Brussels. The Commons foreign affairs committee will say on Tuesday it is sceptical that member states would allow the UK to water down integration and repatriate powers. The cross-party…
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Top US officials call for closure of detention center in Cuba
WASHINGTON, CMC – After visiting the controversial Guantánamo detention center in Cuba, a top United States official and two legislators have called for its immediate closure. “We continue to believe that it is in our national interest to end detention at Guantánamo, with a safe and orderly transition of the detainees to other locations,” said US President Barack Obama’s chief…
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‘Let Mandela Go’
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa prayed for Nelson Mandela yesterday as the revered peace icon faced a third night in hospital, with calls for the family and the nation to “let him go”. Government officials had given no update on Mandela's health since announcing that the 94-year-old was admitted early Saturday and was in a “serious but stable” condition with a lung…
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Nelson Mandela, 94, in Intensive Care
PRETORIA, South Africa – Nelson Mandela is intensive care as he recovers from a recurring lung infection. The 94-year-old former president and civil rights leader remains in serious but stable condition, according to President Jacob Zuma's spokesperson Mac Maharaj. “President Zuma reiterates his call to for South Africa to pray for Madiba (Mandela) and his family at this time,” Maharaj…
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Colombia, U.S. help train Haitian women police
FUSAGASUGA, Colombia — Juliana Jolissaint is no more than 5-feet-5 and 123 pounds, but she could easily instill fear in the heart of a criminal. Put a nightstick in her hand and she drops a comrade to the ground in seconds. “I was very slow,” said Jolissaint, a 21-year-old cadet from Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. “Everything that I have to do [now],…
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Caribbean islands say they are open for business
NEW YORK, CMC – Senior Caribbean tourism officials are hoping for a turnaround in fortunes as the region Wednesday continued efforts to lure visitors to its shores. “We are truly convinced that high tide floats all boats and together by marketing the region … collectively is extremely important,” Chairperson of the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Beverly Nicholson-Doty told the…
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Cristina Fernandez Announces Hospital Opening in Haiti
Buenos Aires, (Prensa Latina) Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, participated today via a video conference at the opening of a hospital in Haiti, and thanked them for appointing it Nestor Kirchner. “We are very excited and want to tell everyone that we are about to inaugurate a referral hospital in Haiti which is an initiative of that country with Venezuela, Cuba…
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Caribbean tourism uphill struggle continues
NEW YORK, CMC – A senior official of the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Tuesday warned that the Caribbean “is barely keeping its head above water” amid predictions that the sector will record a slight increase in tourist arrivals in 2013. CTO Director of Research and Information Technology, Winfield Griffith, told a workshop that forms part of the Caribbean Week…
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